Antique desk feature

Usage examples of rolltop.

Like those on most antique rolltop desks, they were meant to take large, old-fashioned keys and therefore had good-sized openings.

Under this roof – or these roofs – were miles of rare books, acres of valuable carpet, a veritable Louvre of paintings and statuary, a bull's dream of china and glass, and enough armoires, commodes, tallboys, chiffoniers, secretaries, wardrobes, rolltop desks and cellarets to fill every harem in the world.

You will find an old blank book inside a small rolltop desk that belonged to my dear friend Lobia.

On top of the open rolltop desk, next to a dusty pile of old western paperbacks, was a small box still half-wrapped in the brown butcher paper in which it had been delivered.

While they bayed and howled and yapped I looked at a small alcove office with a rolltop desk and a waiting room with mission leather chairs and three diplomas on the wall, at a mission table scattered with copies of the Dog Fancier's Gazette.

Kate inspected a sheaf of photographs on her rolltop desk, all the same size, all taken by the same camera and bright with flash powder.

One end of the room was bedroom, the center was social, and the other end was office--filing cabinets of golden oak, a large safe, black with gold lettering, and a rolltop desk with a green-hooded double lamp over it, a swivel chair behind it and a straight chair beside it.

It contained five keyholes, all rightone in the rolltop, one in the centre drawer and one each in the three side drawers.

It contained five keyholes, all right-one in the rolltop, one in the centre drawer and one each in the three side drawers.

Like the Paperback Room we had been in previously, it contained nothing more in the way of furniture than an overstuffed chair, a reading lamp, a brass-trimmed rolltop desk set beneath one of the two windows and a desk chair that had been overturned.

The five captains were dressed in heavy off-white rolltop sweaters under black reefer jackets.

Tuttle had the whole of the front verandah: he bought two morris rockingchairs, a standard lamp, a rolltop desk and a bookcase with sliding glass doors.